Synopsis
This Amendment clarifies the services a surgical hospital must provide on-site which are similar to the services a general hospital must provide on-site in contrast to the services which are not required to be provided at long-term care, psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals. General hospitals must have an emergency department with facilities and staff while surgical hospitals are only required to provide basic emergency care. Both General and surgical hospitals are required to provide diagnostic x-ray, clinical laboratory and operating room services all with facilities and staff.